George Bacovia

George Bacovia, whose real name was Gheorghe Vasiliu, was born in Bacău in September 1881. He entered the military school of Iași in 1900 but left it in the second semester, then studied law and took his degree in 1911 without ever pleading a case. A copyist, accountant, teacher and ministry clerk, often ill, he received the national poetry prize in 1934, shared with Tudor Arghezi according to TVR. He died at home, in Bucharest, on 22 May 1957.

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• PoetryPlumbGeorge Bacovia · 1916not translated into EnglishLiterature